Maryland vs. Penn State

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Maryland’s biggest win2020: Maryland 35, Penn State 19by 16 points
2. Penn State’s biggest win2017: Penn State 66, Maryland 3by 63 points
3. Upset2020: Maryland 35, Penn State 19Maryland had a 16% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1985: Penn State 20, Maryland 18Penn State had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Ranked showdown1978: Penn State 27, Maryland 3No. 5 Maryland at No. 2 Penn State
6. Ranked showdown1975: Penn State 15, Maryland 13No. 9 Penn State at No. 14 Maryland
7. Ranked showdown1974: Penn State 24, Maryland 17No. 15 Maryland at No. 10 Penn State
8. Ranked showdown1985: Penn State 20, Maryland 18No. 19 Penn State at No. 7 Maryland

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Maryland’s side (Dobson 0–⁠3 against Higgins). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1937 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 14, 1937

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  1938 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 2, 1938

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  1939 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Nov 4, 1939

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  1943 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 27, 1943

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  1944 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 20, 1944

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Maryland vs. Virginia80 meetings, Maryland 46–⁠32–⁠2
• Maryland vs. North Carolina70 meetings, Maryland 32–⁠37–⁠1
• Maryland vs. NC State70 meetings, Maryland 34–⁠32–⁠4
• Maryland vs. Clemson62 meetings, Maryland 26–⁠34–⁠2
• Penn State vs. Pittsburgh99 meetings, Penn State 52–⁠43–⁠4
• Penn State vs. Syracuse71 meetings, Penn State 43–⁠23–⁠5
• Penn State vs. West Virginia61 meetings, Penn State 50–⁠9–⁠2
• Penn State vs. Pennsylvania47 meetings, Penn State 18–⁠25–⁠4